Benvenuto Cellini
1838 Hector Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" premieres in Paris
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
1964 Rod Stewart records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
- 1966 Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks in the UK
Music History
1966 Neil Diamond has his first Billboard chart success with single "Cherry Cherry"
- 1975 Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album "Alive!"
- 1978 "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 performances
- 1982 Decca releases Beatles audition on "Complete Silver Beatles" album, 20 years after label executives rejected them feeling that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business"
Video Music Awards
1998 15th MTV Video Music Awards: Madonna & Will Smith win
Cats
2000 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" closes on at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 7,485 performances; won 7 Tony Awards, 3 Drama desk Awards, and a Grammy Award
- 2018 John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice win Emmys for "Jesus Christ Superstar - Live In Concert", making them all EGOT winners, Legend is the first black male winner
